Modern surgical care:physiologic foundations and clinical applications
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Group Author: | ; |
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Published: |
Informa Healthcare,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | c2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Carrier Form: | 2 v. (xvii, 1163 p.): ill. ; 29 cm. |
ISBN: |
0824728696 9780824728694 |
Index Number: | R363 |
CLC: | R363 |
Call Number: | R363/M689/3rd.ed./v.1 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Metabolic response to starvation, stress, and sepsis -- Pathophysiology of fluid and electrolyte disorders -- Surgical nutrition -- The immune system and the immunocompromised patient -- Physiologic basis of transplantation -- Surgical infection: principles of management and antibiotic usage -- Hemostasis and thrombosis in the surgical patient -- Pathophysiology of shock -- Neoplastic disease: pathophysiology and rationale for treatment -- The physiology of anesthesia and pain -- Sepsis and the syndrome of multiple organ failure -- Application of cellular and molecular biology in modern surgical practice -- Physiologic principles in preparing patients for surgery -- Physiologic dysfunction of the esophagus -- Gastric physiology and acid-peptic disorders -- Physiology of digestion and absorption -- Circulation and vascular disorders of the splanchnic vascular bed -- Inflammatory disorders of the small bowel and colon -- Hepatic physiology -- Portal hypertension -- Calculous disease of the gallbladder and common bile duct -- Normal exocrine function and inflammatory diseases of the pancreas -- The jaundiced patient -- The spleen -- Gastrointestinal hemorrhage -- The anatomy, physiology, and differential diagnosis of acute abdominal pain -- Neoplastic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract -- Mechanical disorders of the stomach, duodenum, and intestine -- Physiologic derangements of the anorectum and the defecatory pelvic floor -- Derrangement in gastrointestinal function secondary to previous surgery -- Pathobiology of surgically relevant pulmonary disease -- Normal cardiac function -- Heart failure and resuscitation -- Mechanical support for the failing heart: current physiologic concepts of management -- Congenital heart lesions -- Acquired cardiac disorders -- Urine formation: from normal physiology to florid kidney failure -- Urinary tract obstruction -- Neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction -- Pathophysiology and management of head injury -- Spinal cord injury -- Injuries to peripheal nerves -- Physiology of arterial, venous, and lymphatic flow -- Aorta and arterial disease of the lower extremity -- Cerebrovascular disease and upper-extremity vascular disease -- Venous and lymphatic abnormalities of the limbs -- Diseases of the thoracic aorta -- Secondary hypertension: pathophysiology and operative treatment -- Calcium and phosphorus metabolism and the parathyroid gland -- Pituitary dysfunction -- Adrenal glands -- The thyroid gland -- Endocrine pancreas -- Multiple endocrine neoplasia; type 1 and 2 -- The biology of wound healing -- Breast: physiology considerations in normal, benign, and neoplastic states -- Hernias of the abdominal wall and its contents -- Pathophysiology of thermal injury -- Physiologic problems in the pediatric surgical patient -- Physiologic considerations in the elderly surgical patient -- Surgery for morbid obesity. |